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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 100 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 92 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 56 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 48 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 46 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 38 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 38 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 26 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 24 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
the Tennessee River, northward of Chattanooga. crossed the Tennessee River at Bridgeport and its vicinity, where he destroyed the railway bridge behind him, and made See page 99. Rosecrans now caused the railway to Stevenson, and thence to Bridgeport, to be put in order under the skillful direction of Colonel Innis and his Micn a military point of view. and thoroughly picketed the railway from Cowan to Bridgeport. Finally, at the middle of August, the army went Picket Hut near Stevensonnd trestle bridges were constructed at Shellmound, the mouth of Battle Creek, Bridgeport, Caperton's Ferry, and Bellefonte. So early as the 20th, August, 1863. Hazewith the main body of his corps, which had crossed the Tennessee at and above Bridgeport, he made a reconnoissance on Lookout Mountain, The summit of Lookout, near Mountain, joined Thomas on the 17th. Granger's reserves were called up from Bridgeport, and encamped at Rossville; a division under General Steedman was ordered up
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
crans's communications between Nashville and Bridgeport. These troops were moved with marvelous celossed the Tennessee, between Chattanooga and Bridgeport, pushed up the Sequatchie Valley, fell upon l Edward M. McCook, which had been sent from Bridgeport in pursuit, could overtake them. Wheeler's y be performed in secret. Hooker crossed at Bridgeport on pontoon bridges on the morning of the 26t rear. By these operations the railway from Bridgeport, well up toward Chattanooga, was put in posssafe communication for the Nationals between Bridgeport and Chattanooga, already obtained by Smith fmed the Chattanooga, which had been built at Bridgeport by the soldiers, When Rosecrans's troops reached Bridgeport, and it was known that there was no steamboat to be found on the river, mechanicsecured the safe navigation of the river from Bridgeport to Brown's Ferry, she commenced regular tripin Tennessee, and then down to Stevenson and Bridgeport, arriving at the latter place on the 14th. [8 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
o its bomb-proof magazine in the mound beneath it. It was constructed of hewn logs from 16 to 20 inches in thickness, with which walls from three to four feet in thickness were constructed. The lower story was pierced for cannon, and the upper story, or tower, for musketry. among the ruins of a once pleasant town, on a slope at the foot of a high rocky mountain. Passing on from Stevenson, we observed many earth-works and block-houses; and at each end of the temporary railway bridge at Bridgeport, where we crossed the Tennessee River, we noticed heavy redoubts. At Shellmound we entered the mountain region south of the Tennessee. The road gradually ascended, and in some places skirted the margin of the river, high above its bed. We soon reached one of the deep mountain gorges through which Hooker passed, See page 152. and crossed it upon delicate trestle-work two hundred feet in air above the stream that passed through it,, the, whole trembling fearfully as our heavy train move
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
orthern Alabama, the movements of Hood against Sherman's communications northward of the Chattahoochee, already considered, See page 897. were begun. To watch and meet Hood's troops, as his plans might be developed, Thomas ordered Croxton's cavalry brigade to patrol the line of the Tennessee River, from Decatur to Eastport. Morgan's division was moved from Athens to Chattanooga, and Rousseau's troops were concentrated at the latter place. Steedman's division was moved from Decatur to Bridgeport. We have already considered the movements of Sherman and Hood, until) late in October, when the latter went over the Sand Mountains, westward, and threatened Decatur, and the former gave up the pursuit of his antagonist in the beautiful Chatooga Valley. See page 899. At that point of time and circumstance, we will resume the narrative of the movements of Hood. Decatur was an important place in connection with military movements at that time. The railway from Nashville on the nort
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
y, Gen. Weitzer's expedition against, 2.530: Gen. Banks's forces concentrated at, 2.599; capture of by Confederates, 3.220. Breckinridge, John C., nomination of for the Presidency, 1.28; flight of from Kentucky, 2.77; treachery of, 1.374. Bridgeport, Hooker crosses the Tennessee at, 3.151. Bridges, railway, destruction of, in Maryland, 1.417. bright, John, champion of the Republic in England, 2.159. Bristow Station, battle of, 3.105. Brown, Col. H., takes command at Fort Pickenat the battle of Antietam, 2.476; at the battle of Fredericksburg, 2.493; succeeds Burnside in command of the Army of the Potomac, 2.497; his Chancellorsville campaign, 3.23-3.39: relieved and placed under arrest, 3.56; crosses the Tennessee at Bridgeport, 3.151; at the battle of Lookout Mountain, 3.162, 164; at the battle of Missionaries' Ridge, 3.166; at the battle of Ringgold, 3.170. Hoover's Gap, capture of, 3.122. Hospitals, general and other, 3.604. Houston, Gov., Sam., loyal acti